New submission from Nick Coghlan: Prompted by a discussion with Doug Hellmann, I'd like to suggest exposing some of the descriptor MRO walking logic as "operator.get_providing_type".
Specifically, where "getattr(obj, 'attrname')" performs a full attribute lookup and "getattr(type(obj), 'attrname'), performs a type-only attribute lookup, "operator.get_providing_type(obj, 'attrname')" would perform an attribute lookup in the vein of _PyType_Lookup, but report the *type* containing the relevant descriptor, rather than fulling resolving the descriptor protocol. This would be intended primarily as a debugging aid, for cases where a super() call is reporting an error, but it isn't clear which particular mixin class is failing, and the traceback isn't providing sufficient detail to figure it out (e.g. due to C functions in the call chain). ---------- messages: 264869 nosy: doughellmann, ncoghlan priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Add operator.get_providing_type _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26961> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
